With four girls, single dad Ryan Withers has his hands too full to look for romance. He’s not complaining - he loves his daughter and the three nieces he adopted when their parents died, and he would do anything for them. He's caught off guard when his mother and daughter decide to play matchmaker.

Alex Bernot works in disaster relief, his job taking him all over the world, helping others, for extended periods of time. He’s staying with his aunt while he’s home, and she sets him up on a blind date. Finding a special someone isn’t really on his mind, but he goes to make his aunt happy.

Ryan and Alex enjoy each other’s company more than either of them expected, and they soon make a second date. Their lives are complicated, though, in very different ways, and soon, family needs and their jobs conspire to pull them apart. They’ll need to figure out how to work through the things keeping them apart, but first, they’ll have to decide if they even want to....

Single dads need love too

I liked the concept of this book going into it. A gay single dad raising his own daughter as well as his sister's kids after his sister and brother in law died in an accident. Each of the girls had their own distinct personality that was evident in the writing of the story. It was kind of fun listening to them, especially the younger ones expressing themselves the best way they know how. The relationship between Ryan and Alex moved really fast, a little too fast for me especially with Ryan being a single dad of four girls. It felt a little too like insta-love for me. This was my first audio with this narrator and I'll say he had some pros and some cons. I loved the emotion he put behind the words, like you could almost feel what the character was feeling. There were a couple of times though that I had to rewind because I didn't catch whether or not I was listening to Ryan or Alex.

Overall I enjoyed this one and I would listen to another book by Balderson to see if this was just a one off.

A prolific author, Sean Michael takes notes dictated by the men who live in his head and shares their stories. Often referred to as "Space Cowboy" and "Gangsta of Love" while still striving for the moniker of "Maurice," Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and pursuing the Kama Sutra by channeling the long-lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to Chicago. A long-time writer of complicated haiku, Sean is currently attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate-spinning and soap-carving sex toys. Barring any of that? He'll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark. To learn more about Sean, please visit Sean's website.

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